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“Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need to copy our sociologisms in order to be social, although what they do in their own social realm may not easily map on to things we do in our social realm”
— Stuart Geiger - The ethnography of robots
(Source: berglondon.com)
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“ISS, you are looking good this morning”, said Robonaut on Twitter via his Facebook profile that he posts to with a mobile phone.
(Source: itsfullofstars)
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Nike Shout by Ogilvy Singapore linked networked perimeter displays with a Facebook page and twitter hashtag to allow Indonesian football fans to broadcast their messages during a match - live.
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Ericsson believes that in the Networked Society, more than 50 billion things will be connected, in order to make our lives and our businesses more efficient and more enjoyable.
A beautiful video showing an almost utopian near future scenario - set in a world of networked products with emotive behaviour and conversational interfaces.
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Peel uses a combination of iPhone app and networked physical IR blaster “fruit” to turn your home entertainment setup into something more connected and social.
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Network & Society, a project by a team at MIT’s SENSEABLE City Lab uses data from 12 billion landline calls to highlight areas of the UK with strong social cohesion.
Regional boundaries are useful for governments, said Carlo Ratti, who led the work. “But they don’t say anything about how people in those regions interact.”
(originally via prostheticknowledge)
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There was a time when London united around the vision of a better future and a group of young idealists were fusing art and science to build an egalitarian city.
This documentary is their story.
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Incidental Media by BERG is the first of two video sketches illustrating some of the ideas and principles behind Dentsu London’s communications strategy Making Future Magic.
Here, media includes messages from friends and social services, like Foursquare or Twitter, and also more functional messages from companies or services like banks or airlines alongside large traditional big ‘M’ Media (like broadcast or news publishing).
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Carnegie Mellon University Professor Jesse Schell dives into the “Post Facebook” world of social game development that Ubicomp and the Internet of Things could enable.
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Macy’s Magic Fitting Room by LBi New York contains a large multitouch mirror and iPad app that lets customers browse, shop and “try-on” the latest must-have items. Flip through the hottest tops, dresses, bottoms and coats from some of Macy’s top designers and once complete you can send the whole experience to your Facebook page, SMS, or email, and shop all the looks in the store itself.
The Fitting Room, located on the first floor between the main escalators, will remain at the flagship store until November.
